Have you ever followed in footsteps of books you have read ? I have many times pretty awesome

[dgr416]

I love going on adventures where hunting books and adventure books are written .I went where Fred Bear ,Elmer Keith , Teddy Roosevelt , Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark , Lewis and Clark ,Wendel Endicott, Charles Sheldon and many more .I still found people in 1998 that had meet many of them and took me to old hunting cabins they used and took me on trails they walked .I even got to ride in an old bush plane from the 60s that waa used to guide polar bear hunting for many famous people .I found old hotels and lodges they had stayed in .I love retracing their footsteps .I really got to know alot of oldtimers who had taken lots of famous hunters hunting .I had a friend Jim Harris who helped Elmer Keith on a hunt in return Elmer Keirh invited him to his house for the weekend .They shot half the day ate good homecooked dinners from Elmers wife and told stories into the night .Another friend had taken Fred Bear bunting and Fred had left letters and boots and other stuff in their cabin which were still there 50 years later .
Roy Chandler hunted with a friend of mine he had written awesome hunting books .I gotta write my adventures of 12 years in Alaska

 

[Flbt]

I love going on adventures where hunting books and adventure books are written .I went where Fred Bear ,Elmer Keith , Teddy Roosevelt , Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark , Lewis and Clark ,Wendel Endicott, Charles Sheldon and many more .I still found people in 1998 that had meet many of them and took me to old hunting cabins they used and took me on trails they walked .I even got to ride in an old bush plane from the 60s that waa used to guide polar bear hunting for many famous people .I found old hotels and lodges they had stayed in .I love retracing their footsteps .I really got to know alot of oldtimers who had taken lots of famous hunters hunting .I had a friend Jim Harris who helped Elmer Keith on a hunt in return Elmer Keirh invited him to his house for the weekend .They shot half the day ate good homecooked dinners from Elmers wife and told stories into the night .Another friend had taken Fred Bear bunting and Fred had left letters and boots and other stuff in their cabin which were still there 50 years later .
Roy Chandler hunted with a friend of mine he had written awesome hunting books .I gotta write my adventures of 12 years in Alaska

I have been where some local books were written on hunting.
But mostly historical books
The Scott massacre
Fort recovery
Few Indian villages
Around where Dainial Boon came down here
The old Spanish trail

Quite a few civli war thangs
And a few places were old local ( famous) gun fights happened.
Worked around a old tobacco farm where one of the fights took place. And while I was around they took down a old building and found a c&b colt loaded with a extra cylinder loaded to. Wrapped in a grease tobacco nail wrapping

Have been on or around cattle drives that have been in books or tv

A around where a famous murder was
( not there because of him but knew about it anyway)

 

[dgr416]

I forgot in Montana and Idaho I followed the Lewis and Clark trail a long ways .I got to pronhorn where they had crossed in Montana .I was all over the Keni where Teddy Roosevelt had hunted .Someone had made Jack oconner a rifle in Delta Junction and after he died went back and bought it back from his widow .I got to hunt the copper river basin where Elmer Keith took a huge moose and grizzly with the rifle I bought later that he had owned .I quail and rabbit hunted where Robert Ruark had come to visit relatives and quail and rabbit hunted with them.Hes the one that made me get English setters which I have had many over 25 years .I always went on adventures where Craig Boddington went to mountier training at blsckrapids where i lived .I wish the dang liberary there would try to have a huge hunting book section for vistors fort greely there use to but it closed .I am glad i retraced lots of old adventurers and made lots of my own there .

 

[Flbt]

Oh forgot
Ww2 air training feild is very close by.

My grandpa helped bring out what was left of 2-3 crashed plains / men
I say 2-3 because over time depending on which auntie that was telling the story.
There was 3 dead in 3 crash’s or 1 dead in one a 2 in the other.
I have only found one crash sight in the swaps it’s a depression about 4 ft deep and 10-15 feet around all these years later.
And that was more than 15 years ago so who knows what’s left of it now.

 

[Red Leg]

Couple of trips to Southport to pay homage to Robert Ruark when the Ruark Society was still active. Plus, I never miss an opportunity to visit Hemingway's home whenever we are in Key West.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Oh, yes. Many times.

I read “Tracks Of An Intruder” by Gordon Young and badly wanted to hunt a Seladang in Thailand.

I actually succeeded in 1979, which is particularly fortunate for me. Because after 1990, Thailand only permitted/permits hunting for 3 game animals (muntjac deer, wild boar & Wilson’s snipe).

As I child, I read Herge’s “Tintin In The Congo” comic book and always dreamt of hunting in the Belgian Congo. Of course, the Belgian Congo ceased to exist in 1960 (when I was nine years old).

 

[TheGrayRider]

Solo canoe trip - 10 days on the Missouri River, Montana.

Actual campsite of the Lewis-Clark Expedition on May 8, 1805.

I can’t wait to return for another canoe trip in Montana . Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a.k.a Tom.

 

[MontanaPat]

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Solo canoe trip - 10 days on the Missouri River, Montana.

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Actual campsite of the Lewis-Clark Expedition on May 8, 1805.

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I can’t wait to return for another canoe trip in Montana . Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a.k.a Tom.

I’ve done that same Missouri River canoe float thru the White Cliffs of the Missouri Monument several times, beautiful area for anyone that hasn’t done it before. The float starts at Coal Banks landing usually and no road access for 60 miles until the take out at Judith Landing or keep going down thru the Missouri River Badlands for another 80 miles to the next take out at the Fort Robinson Bridge. Great adventure for anyone wanting to see some unspoiled country just like when Lewis and Clark came thru the area in 1805

 

[Denvir Tire]

Many years ago, during some midday downtime, I was reading, while sitting at one of the big waterholes at Etosha. The book I'm reading is "The White Bushman" by Peter Stark, a terrific autobiography detailing his life in Namibia as a game ranger/soldier,hunter etc..
One chapter details his time in Etosha, building the roads, camps, and other infrastructure. In the book, he's recalling constructing the stone wall, surrounding a waterhole, as punishment for something. As I'm reading, it's becoming clear to me that I'm at that very same waterhole with my feet up the wall! Reading further, he's describing the placing of the largest, most difficult stone, some metaphor for something I've since forgotten.
The best part is, as I'm looking around, I notice the stone my feet are propped up on is indeed the largest in the wall!
Synchronicity

A terrific book that I'll highly recommend....

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Never been much of a fanboy of outdoors literature. Not sure why. Just doesn't turn my crank. Anyway, I prefer to make my own adventures flying by the seat of my pants.

 

[dgr416]

I had a ton of my own adventures in Alaska almost killed in plane crash almost froze to death almost eaten by bears but kept my head .I was left for dead on drop hunt gf at the time arranged hunt went through all my credit cards when i was gone.I gotta write a book about my adventures .

 

[Saul]

My younger self was foolish enough to think Hunter S. Thompson was someone to emulate. Now, I just aspire to be Tintin in the Congo.

 

[DaddyFlip]

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead inspired me to go to architecture school. I somehow connected with the main character, but I don't remember why (it was 40 years ago). Then reality set in and I realized I didn't want to be an architect.

 

[DaddyFlip]

I had a ton of my own adventures in Alaska almost killed in plane crash almost froze to death almost eaten by bears but kept my head .I was left for dead on drop hunt gf at the time arranged hunt went through all my credit cards when i was gone.I gotta write a book about my adventures .

You sure you're not channeling Charles Morse in The Edge?

 

[Sarg]

Interesting question & post.

Yes I have many times as well, one of the main ones I followed was a book I read at school “Top End Safari” by Vic McCristal about traveling in the NT of Australia & Commercial Buffalo hunting on the Marrakai Plains at Wild Boar Staion, so at 16yrs I left NZ with my BSA .270Win (found wanting on Buffalo unless Brain shot) went to Sydney bought a old SW, then spent a few weeks driving to Darwin, then out to Wild Boar Station using directions from the book, immediately getting a job at the newly opened Buffalo International Abattoirs.

None of this was as easy as it sounds !


I found a copy recently, they are cheap & still a good read today of a by gone era.

 

[Grandpa Moose]

Such stories filled my imagination from the start. We didn’t have much spare money as a kid but hunting local game was a major source of groceries. As I got older and with more reading of Hemingway Ruark Rossevelt Capstick and others fueled my life. I ended up working in Alaska traveled Asia to the soviet border and finally lived my dream on two RSA hunts. If I can recover a bit of my health I hope there is one more great adventure left

 

[Frontier3006]

I haven't followed in anyone’s tracks on a specific hunting expedition. But I have traced some of Hemingway’s footsteps down Duvall Street, in Key West. I have had a drink at Sloppy Joe’s, Captain Tony’s (the original site of Sloppy Joe’s). I’ve had some cocktails in the lobby bar at the La Concha hotel, the building Hemingway uses as a navigation land mark in “To Have And Have Not”. I have toured his home there and I have done a little fishing there also. It’s a nice place to spend some time especially between Christmas and Easter to escape the cold of a northern winter.

 

[Elkeater]

I guess I don’t tend to think of my life as very interesting. Some people have told me it is. I don’t think I’ve really ever followed in the footsteps of any one particular book.

In my working life I’ve done some things and been some places that are very prevalent in the creation of the agency I work for. Kind of neat connection across time with some of the original rangers such as those by the name of Ed Pulaski (of famous firefighting tool creation), and Aldo Leopold (whom the first designated wilderness area in the U.S. is named for) who helped create many of the forests of the Southwest. I’ve fought fire in the same places as those of 1910 did with some of the same tools I’m sure. I’ve packed into wilderness on stock with the U.S. brand on them.

Personally I’ve gotten to do some cool things. Fun to read the travels of Selous and be able to say “I’ve been there”. Hunted from the cold shorelines of Alaska, the high Rockies, eastern hardwood forests and Africa. Been to Ketchum Idaho where Hemingway spent his last days. I live in The Tonto, where Zane Grey spent much of his time until 1930. Helped a buddy pack an elk out just south of Zane Greys (rebuilt) cabin last week. So I guess I’ve been to some places from the books I’ve read.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I guess I don’t tend to think of my life as very interesting. Some people have told me it is. I don’t think I’ve really ever followed in the footsteps of any one particular book.

In my working life I’ve done some things and been some places that are very prevalent in the creation of the agency I work for. Kind of neat connection across time with some of the original rangers such as those by the name of Ed Pulaski (of famous firefighting tool creation), and Aldo Leopold (whom the first designated wilderness area in the U.S. is named for) who helped create many of the forests of the Southwest. I’ve fought fire in the same places as those of 1910 did with some of the same tools I’m sure. I’ve packed into wilderness on stock with the U.S. brand on them.

Personally I’ve gotten to do some cool things. Fun to read the travels of Selous and be able to say “I’ve been there”. Hunted from the cold shorelines of Alaska, the high Rockies, eastern hardwood forests and Africa. Been to Ketchum Idaho where Hemingway spent his last days. I live in The Tonto, where Zane Grey spent much of his time until 1930. Helped a buddy pack an elk out just south of Zane Greys (rebuilt) cabin last week. So I guess I’ve been to some places from the books I’ve read.

I think we were in each other's footsteps. Ranger, firefighter, USFS animal packer (rented the govt my horses as their livestock was crap), Montana, Idaho, Alaska, Canada. Also taught school, coached basketball & wrestling, drove truck commercially, crane operator, USFS surveyor, military policeman, law clerk (while finishing MA), emergency med tech. I've done a bit of writing too ... and project editor. Managed to shove about three lifetimes into one.

I know enough about Hemingway to know he's not to be emulated. A drunk who treated women and his family like shit. Not the footsteps I want to walk in.

 

[wesheltonj]

The only place that I hunted where someone famous hunted (Hemingway) was Mto wa Mbu in Tanzania. However, I did not go there just because that’s where Hemingway hunted.